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"The possibility suggests itself that no dreams, however absurd or senseless, are wasted in the universe. Embedded in the dream is a hunger for its own reification, a demand that imposes an obligation on reality..."
― Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles
Canon EOS 50E
Fuji Sensia 200 <3
Processed E6
Scanned with Plustek 8100
Taken: Pula, Croatia
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Sunrise long exposure over the drain ruins of Coledale beach rockshelf south of Sydney. My first visit to this location and we got lucky with the sky, some fantastic deep reds before a nice gold afterglow. :)
Nikon D800 & Nikkor 16-35mm, Lee Big Stopper. PP in PS CC using Nik Software and luminosity masks.
"La flamme est un monde pour l'homme seul. Alors, si le rêveur de flamme parle à la flamme, il parle à soi-même, le voici poète. En agrandissant le monde, le destin du monde, en méditant sur le destin de la flamme, le rêveur agrandit le langage puisqu'il exprime une beauté du monde. Par une telle expression pancalisante, le psychisme lui-même s'agrandit, s'élève. La méditation de la flamme a donné au psychisme du rêveur une nourriture de verticalité, un aliment verticalisant. Une nourriture aérienne, allant à l'opposé de toutes les ' nourritures terrestres ', pas de principe plus actif pour donner un sens vital aux déterminations poétiques. "
--Gaston Bachelard "La flamme d’une chandelle"
@Shanghai
Printed forOSAKASEVEN Group Photo Exhibition
2006, October 15th-22nd, Art Gallery Fujihara, Tenma,Osaka
BeSpoke - Deep One
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Dae ALCHEMY SKIN EVOX BOM COBALT Mage - Miix Event
The Empty Bottle Project 022
Alchemy
1980 Atwood Avenue
53704
During the Covid-19 pandemic, many bars/restaurants are required by law to limit capacity limits of patrons, or utilize outdoor patio space if social distancing is not achievable inside. In spring of 2020, under Governor Tony Evers "Safer at Home" order, bars were required to shut down at the end of March through the end of May. These photos document this chapter in our city's history, some have been fortunate to make it through but for some this was the last call.
Yuloff is a sorcerer who has studied alchemy his whole life. As he grew older and more powerful, he became corrupted with the desire and greed for power. In his darkest times, he was recruited by a man most commonly known as "The White Devil." Under his charge, Yuloff has practiced even darker aspects of magic and alchemy. Now, the White Devil is having Yuloff experiment on seventh sons - to find the source of their powers.
In many ways, Yuloff and the White Devil are similar. Above all else, the White Devil has an endless greed for more power, hence his search for seventh sons and their abilities. His hope is that by experimenting on the seventh sons, he will some day be able to transfer their powers into himself.
The seventh sons and their protectors are going into hiding, trying to escape this dark fate. However, some will rise and fight back. The question is, will it be too late?
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This is a small MOC that I built. It's based on a story I'm writing about seventh sons in medieval times. I didn't spend too much time on this build, but I think it turned out really well. What do you guys think?
This creation was on display at #brickfair 2015!
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~The Phantom
The forest of Anor Lass is well known for very rich floral growth, consisting of thousands and thousands of different herbs that can be found amongst its trees. Herbalists from all over the realm venture into Anor Lass to collect herbs for their potions and alchemical concoctions. Some of them have built small wooden houses there, in case they need to spend the night to collect some rare night or early morning plants.
Gedion, one of the oldest herbalist in town, witnessed something very unusual one night.
"The Moon was young and the sky was clear so I took the opportunity to collect some fallen leaves of Moonskin tree. With every full moon the tree makes room for new leaves on it and sets free old ones. They are very hard to see during the day and even harder yet during the night. But when the moon is young and not obscured by the clouds, edges of fallen leaves glow shyly and that make them easier to spot. Tea made from those leaves helps you stay awake and if you lose track of the cups you drank, your eyes can adjust to dark much more easily.
I was just picking up the third leaf and suddenly the earth started to tremble. The shakes were getting stronger and the noise scarier. It was coming from the direction of my house, and just as I realized that the treetops were glowing with a faint red hue, out of nowhere, my house was among the treetops. As I saw that, everything stopped immediately - except the red light. I was scared and I wanted to run, but being 71 years old, that was not an option, so I just hid myself in a bush by the road. After some time I heard my horse, so I went back there to see if is it hurt or in trouble.Goddamn horse, bringing me nothing but trouble! When I got back to the house, I saw it high on a big black rock, and some man holding on to his head with one hand and some strange hat and staff in other. When he saw me, he went in my direction and asked me "Is that your house?" Being scared at the moment, I told him that I will let my dog Ando on him if he came any closer, so he stopped right away and said that he means no harm. That was actually quite good because God knows where Ando was at the time. To hell with the dog to, he is no better that that horse. Strange man put his even more stranger hat on his head and introduced himself, but I forgot his name right away. He asked me again if that was my house and I said yes. He started apologizing and apologizing and mumbling something in god knows which language, and then started saying that he got overexcited and that this was an accident and that he will fix everything. After quite a long apology, he said that he will be back before the sky turns blue and that I should wait for him. I said nothing for that whole time and as he turned away, I just saw him disappear in the dark.
Three big crystals rumbled the earth and popped out of it. Very pleasant for the eye and warm when touched, they were the source of the red light. After I finished observing them, I looked up and saw that my house is not on some big black stone but on a giant black hand. The realization made my sight blurry, and the next thing I remember was someone poking me with the stick and asking me if I am allright. And it was him - the man who ruined my house! In my 71 years of life, this was the most unpleasant awakening, and also first time to see my house from way down below. He helped me to get up while mumbling apologies, but then I start yelling that sorry will not fix my house and bring it down from that horrible demon hand. And that was when he showed me my "new" house. The damage done to it was gone and it was looking as it was brand new. The rumbling and quaking must have changed the course of some underground stream because now there was even a spring of fresh water flowing underneath it.To be honest, it looked even better than before, but I could not admit that to this asshole. The only thing that was truly different was that now I had a stairway up to my front door. How in fourteen worlds does that fool think that a 71 years old man can walk that many stairs? So I started yelling on him again, but he just calmly walked to the stairs and started doing something with his staff and a bag of something strange that he unhooked from his belt. After a few moments some dust come out from the bag and started climbing up to the stairs, sinking into the stones on the stairs and giving them a faint glow. He said "There! On these stairs you will never be tired, you will never slip, you will always see where you are going and it will never freeze. Here. Try it!". And try it I did. Honest to all four gods, I never felt more rested while climbing. On the middle way up I turned to ask him what kind of a stone that was but he was already gone and I never saw him again. That was probably good, because who knows where would my house could end up with our next meeting.
To this day people are coming from the city to see my house on the giant hand with its magical stairs. Once a thief tried to steal the stones from the stairs but he could not move them at all. Heh, stupid thief.
One winter passed since that quite unordinary day and the stairs are still here, as you can see, and house still looks brand new. The crystals lost their glow after few full moons, and over time even started losing their red color. Still, they look nice and they are ever warm to the touch. I think that is the complete story of how my house got up in the sky. Now, would you like a cup of tea?"
Part of a larger series called "The Alchemy of Unfoldment". The order of the pictures is quite important and gets a bit screwed up by the photo stream (where I want to show various pics), so please check out the album if you have some time to spare! :)
Playing with the last release of Alchemy viewer, windlights and environment settings.
Pictures are not edited.
alchemyviewer.org/alchemy-beta-400-update.html
Alchemy Beta 4.0.0 Update
Climate change and the related running out of fossil fuel reserves drive the development of renewable energy sources. To contribute to a solution of these problems, we present the results of a BSc student design synthesis exercise project on Space Based Solar Power (SBSP). A SBSP system generates power in space using solar cells concentrator systems and wireless power transmittance to Earth. Main advantages compared to terrestrial solar conversion systems are a higher surface power density and continuous power supply. The project includes an analysis of the current and future electricity market, its technical performance, the conceptual design of a SBSP system, the economical aspects and sustainability. The SBPS top level requirements are an operational lifetime greater than 10 years, an end of life effective power output on Earth exceeding 1 GW, a launch before 2025 and being cost-competitive with terrestrial energy sources. Besides these top level requirements, numerous derived requirements are established on sustainability, safety and (subsystem) design. The SBPS concept, termed Heliodromus, resulted from a broad study starting with three existing concepts. A systems engineering trade-off resulted in a new constellation concept: Ten satellites orbiting in Low-Earth Orbit and two satellites orbiting in geostationary Earth orbit each having five mirrors. The performance of Heliodromus was evaluated by the following criterea: overall efficiency, technical readiness levels, energy payback time and total cost. The major losses occur during the initial energy conversion, with only 15% efficiency, by the photovoltaic thin films. Heliodromus is 5 to 10 times more expensive compared to existing Earth based solar farms, both photovoltaic and solar dynamic. The energy payback time is 6 years compared to 3 years for terrestrial solutions. The worst case estimate of Heliodromus' efficiency is 2% which is not sufficient to compete with Earth-based solar systems. However, due to the ongoing rapid developments, an overall efficiency of 10% efficiency is credible in the present decade. The (worst case) electricity cost is 1 $ per kWh compared to 0.1 $ per kWh for a (2010) terrestrial power plant. The cost of Heliodromus is around $98 billion and at this stage it is not price-competitive with fossil or Earth-based renewable energy sources. The required assembly in orbit was never done on the scale required for Heliodromus, therefore it opens totally new fields of research and development. The total efficiency was defined worst case but the improvement of electronic components efficiency will continue. Therefore a factor 5 improvement in the near future is probable, getting Heliodromus closer to becoming market viable. 61 st International Astronautical Congress, Prague, CZ.
www.researchgate.net/publication/229007003_Heliodromus_Re...
The cult of Mithra offered its followers well-being in life, elevation of the soul and, presumably, specific guarantees for a future life. Through his devotion to Mithra, the initiate could attain the rank of Magister and intellectually compensate for shortcomings in his profane career. Mithraism involves climbing a cosmic ladder of seven gates, seven planets and seven grades (see box). Mithraism is a cosmosophy, since the doctrine conceives the cosmos as created and regenerated by Mithra's saving act, Tauroctonia, and that there is a possibility of salvation (ascension into Aeternitas). Mithraic thought is therefore neither anti-cosmic nor anti-somatic
Each time the seven degrees were passed, secrets were revealed to the initiate, who underwent trials and journeys. The cult of Mithra ended with fraternal and frugal feasts. Once a Master, the follower of Mithra could open a new temple himself. As most of them were soldiers, every garrison had a group worshipping Mithra. If the group remained garrisoned in one place for a long time, then civilians could be accepted into the ranks of the “brotherhood”. When the Magister officiated, to his right and left stood the “dadophores”, two young men, one carrying a raised torch and the other a torch lowered to the ground. They represented the geniuses of Morning and Evening, Midday and Midnight, Spring and Winter, Life and Death.
Climbing a cosmic ladder
freimaurerei.ch/fr/culte-de-mithra-et-fm-mimetisme-esoter...